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The US airline fleet – where are the opportunities for fleet refreshing?
In our previous story, we looked at the big picture of relative fleet size and age. Now we dig deeper into the age...
Premium 2018.15 – Disappearing Douglas
The Douglas Aircraft Company of Long Beach, California started the business in 1921. It went to build remarkable...
The Mad Dog won’t go the way of old planes for a while
Bloomberg has this interesting story on Delta and its MD-88 fleet. Plans are to keep these aircraft flying for...
Premium #342 – Aircraft transactions through July
Despite the slower activity at air shows, the commercial aircraft business is not moribund. There has been quite a...
Premium – Japan Airlines Fleet Review
Japan Air Lines, as it was first known at its start in 1951, was a state-owned airline. It remained this way until...
Premium – A Fleet Review of Air France/KLM
Air France and KLM merged in 2004. The joint company has hubs in Amsterdam and Paris. Because of their long...
Premium #303 – Old aircraft and the example of Delta Air Lines
Delta Air Lines is well known for its commitment to older aircraft. Delta has a world-class MRO in Atlanta. Even...
Premium #301 – The Parked Fleet
While most of us focus, day to day, on airplanes that are flying, there is another group of aircraft that are idle,...
Getting to 10,000 deliveries
Today Airbus delivered it's 10,000 airplane. It is an A350-900 for Singapore Airlines making this is a big day for...
Retiring aircraft
The current backlog for aircraft is well known. There are some, AirInsight included, who believe that there is an...
Premium #217 – Delta’s Fleet News
Over the past week we had some big news from Delta. First came the much anticipated order for the CSeries. Although...